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9/11HECnet In A Box
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- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Topics
- DECnet,HECnet,VAX/VMS,OpenVMS,DEC VAX,PDP-11,RSX,DECnet/Python,Hobbyist DECnet Network, HECnet, DEC, VAX, PDP-11, Networking, SimH, QEMU, VDE2, VDE switch, OpenVMS, VAX/VMS, RSX, RSX-11M-PLUS, DECnet/Python, Tap, Tun/Tap, Bridge
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- 18.9G
HECnet-in-a-box is a Oracle VirtualBox appliance intended for
people wanting to get on HECnet (the Global Hobbyist DECnet network) quickly with little effort.
It comes with a bridge that provides TAP interfaces and a VDE Switch for emulators to connect to, as well as a DECnet/Python instance and a SimH PDP-11/70 running RSX-11M-Plus.
It comes with a bridge that provides TAP interfaces and a VDE Switch for emulators to connect to, as well as a DECnet/Python instance and a SimH PDP-11/70 running RSX-11M-Plus.
Configuration involves answering a few
questions pertaining to node names and addresses and firing up the DECnet nodes which shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
Instructions are in the
README.
Both SimH and QEMU support VDE switches directly, so it is easy
to keep adding SimH and QEMU emulated machines to it. SimH VAX running VMS / OpenVMS / Ultrix, DEC Alpha emulators running OpenVMS/Alpha, QEMU Windows NT running DECnet/Pathworks NT and so on can be easily added for lots of fun for classic and retro computing enthusiasts.
